Scientists to use AI to analyse 1.6m brain scans to develop tool predicting dementia risk

The number of people living with dementia globally is forecast to nearly triple to to 153 million by 2050. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Scientists are to analyse more than a million brain scans using artificial intelligence with the aim of developing a tool to predict a person’s risk of dementia.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Dundee will examine CT and MRI scans of patients from Scotland captured over more than a decade, as part of a global research effort called NEURii.